And why is this? It is absolutely ridiculous that people are so clueless that they even still TRY to use the Chinese apps. Even if spun off to American "ownership" the main people in the company are extensions of the CCP. It has been proven that even with just the app itself in "normal" mode that the data is used in negative to find areas of interest. Any area where no GPS tracking comes from their app (because it is disallowed in certain areas) causes them to dig into it to find out if it is something worth their interest. They also have the proven ability to push updates to the app to add nefarious services just the duration of the snoop then it goes back. So it never triggers malicious app on the scans even though it can be toggled for malicious usage then put back in original state very quickly. It is simply malware from the Chinese government that is wrapped in an addictive shell.

Even if spun off to American "ownership" the main people in the company are extensions of the CCP. It has been proven that even with just the app itself in "normal" mode that the data is used in negative to find areas of interest. Any area where no GPS tracking comes from their app causes them to dig into it to find out if it is something worth their interest. They also have the proven ability to push updates to the app to add nefarious services just the duration of the snoop then it goes back. So it never triggers malicious app on the scans even though it can be toggled for malicious usage then put back in original state very quickly. It is simply malware from the Chinese government that is wrapped in an addictive shell.

I'm glad someone else feels this way. I would go as far as say for me it generates a fight or flight response. I have a very strong dislike to anything that makes me feel like someone is trying to manipulate me. Insincere greetings and platitudes or forced ones just light me up like a Christmas tree in a bad way. Also is the new thing where every company wants to know my name for the greeting. You can have my name when we're friends. Otherwise, I have no problem being a number. Sales people are the absolute worst. I once knew a guy who wrote everything down in a notepad that you may have mentioned about likes, dislikes, family events and other things and he would study his previous notes before meeting with anyone. I find this INCREDIBLY creepy and infuriating. It makes me want to run and hide and keep a book taped to my ass, because someone is wanting to ram something up my hiney. I cannot turn this off, not that I would really want to try.

I use ChatGPT because there is NOT any lock in. They want to start playing that game, they lose my money.

Is one of the worlds most despicable companies. One of their many business models for gaining new customers is that they have former executives "leave" their company, move to another company, then immediately fire IT at that company and shift services to Accenture. It is extraordinarily corrupt.

It is not meat. The definition of meat is flesh of a living organism. No living organism, no meat. Lab grown meat is alive only in that cells divide, there are no other components that work together to make a living being. If they call it meat, it is dishonest and deserves to be shunned. Call it what it is and I'll give it a chance. Lab grown meat substitute, or heck even make up a new name for it, but don't call it meat. Also, the usage of the word protein to describe meat is about as hoity toity as it gets. Calling real meat simply protein is like calling an automobile simply metal. Meat contains protein, primarily is protein, but only by percentage, there are many more things that are in a piece of muscle from a mammal or the flesh of a fruiting body on a plant also called meat.

Don't try and market it as meat, and I'll give it a chance. You lie and market it as meat and I'll avoid forever. The definition of meat is the flesh of a living being. Just because it is protein simulating meat doesn't mean that it's meat. Also, I have just as much of an issue with frozen dinners calling something beef or chicken or pork when it has fillers in it. In my opinion to be able to legally use those terms (meat, beef, pork, chicken) it has to be 100% of those things except for possible hydration and spicing. Fillers should automatically force it to be called meat substitute or at least something understood to have fillers like meatloaf or something like that. Pressed and formed meat like substance can F right off.

DRM, digital rights management greatly predates DRM in the display manager context. It also carries a massively bad connotation to it. DRM in the display manager context just needs to concede that to the clusterF that is digital rights management.

Yeah, when are we getting the OS level override to tell any app that its DRM can fuck right off? Computing has lost its way when companies providing software have more control over our devices than the owner of the devices. Just because software comes from Microsoft, Adobe or any other major software provider doesn't mean it isn't malware. When a device is designed in a way that its security model treats the owner as an untrusted threat actor, software enforcing that model functions as malware with respect to the owner, regardless of vendor intent.

Corporate software, especially software on devices (IoT, cars, phones, tablets) , is legit malware in today's world. Malware can be defined as anything that works against the wishes of the owner of a given thing. When the manufacturer has more control than the owner, then malware is involved even if it came from the manufacturer directly, it is first party malware. Security has turned away from protect the owner from 3rd parties to protect the manufacturer from the owner.

I don't think it SHOULD come from anyone. I am just not OK with free money being given to people with able bodies and minds. I think they should have to do SOMETHING that benefits society to get the benefit from it whether that means assigning jobs to them from registered job pools and then make up the difference with money from the government if it is not a living wage. But just simply saying that they can't do what they used to do so lets give them free money is a ridiculous idea. It will be popular, because who dislike free money if they are the one receiving it... but people should work for what they get if they are able bodied and minded. If they are unemployable because of bad life decisions (drugs, criminal behavior, etc) , then they shouldn't get anything until they have proven they are on the straight and narrow.

This argument is no different than the 2nd amendment arguments. Is it the tool or the person using it to blame? I personally do not want my rights (or yours) to use tools appropriately, restricted in any way due to other people doing bad things with those tools, even if the good to bad is outnumbered 100 or 1000's to 1 or more. Put in systems to make PEOPLE do the right thing, not the tools. If we put bans on anything AI, then we will lose those good ones. We will also put a cap on future advancements because of bias of not allowing AI at all if we go that route. Maybe make a policy on youtube that new accounts are allowed 2 big downvote getters for bad AI before the account is closed. For established accounts, give a little more leeway, but still close them if they are publishing AI crap. But again only if it is crap, not just because they use AI in its creation.

And no doubt this will continue the trend of medical systems tied to the cloud. There should be laws passed that medical systems MUST give you the option to keep data 100% local to be given to a medical professional by YOU at a time, place and method of your choice. From blood glucose monitoring to CPAPs to heart monitoring and everything in between, It should never be mandated that you have to use cloud systems and it should NOT have be a binary choice of either using lower technology devices or using the cloud with higher technology devices. High technology body worn monitoring devices MUST be allowed to keep data locally if the patient so chooses.

This. But what you mention is not all of it. No one likes AI slop, but it is not slop because it is created by AI. It is slop because it is bad, REGARDLESS of how it was made. Stop blaming AI on the slop issue. People have the option to continue tuning for better output but they stop when it's good enough to get views. If the content is GOOD, who cares where it came from? Same for when it is bad. ALSO, if someone creates two identical videos, one completely done by humans using software tools like photoshop and after effects or any other similar package, and the other one uses AI. If the AI model creates its output using knowledge it gained from seeing and interacting with intellectual property, why is the AI considered bad, but when the person using the same knowledge of IP and creates a similar output, there is no crying foul of IP theft. If a person can freely see ideas and things and incorporate that knowledge into projects that put that knowledge to use, then the same person doing the same thing and creating nearly the same output using AI tools should not be a problem either.

They are worrying about inadvertent middle click when you have browsers that try to force you into using the address bar for other things. The address bar should be the address bar and nothing else. And that address should always display the FQDN that you are connecting to, not just the domain. Also, they need to stop text fields from being able to capture the cursor automatically. How many times have people clicked on a link and while waiting for the site to load went and did something else only to have the browser force grab the cursor while you are typing other things, potentially critically private things. Also close the loophole where a site can see where a mouse is and what you are doing on the page. F* the advertisers, build the browser for the users and nothing else. Reply to fingerprinting requests with the same response from every browser. So many loopholes that need to be closed before worrying about something like the middle click.